The Victorian government will ban gas connections to new homes and residential subdivisions from January 1 next year.

Cooking on gas is the one environmentally damaging thing I don’t want to give up, I’ll admit…

  • Motavader@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Could we please instead do something about the global shipping and trucking industries? Hell, even clothing production creates more CO2 emissions than shipping and trucking combined. I would gladly sacrifice more shitty clothes for the ability to cook a decent meal.

    • cuavas@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You fail to understand just how big a large container ship is. If a shirt comes on a ship from China, the truck taking it from the warehouse to the shop emits more CO2 for that shirt than the ship did bringing it from to the port. In fact, if you walk for ten minutes to the shop and back, you have emitted more CO2 than the ship did to carry that shirt. A container ship emits a large total amount of CO2 because it’s very big, carrying a massive amount of cargo. But overall, shipping is one of the most efficient modes of transport we’ve invented.

    • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s not an either/or, we need to do both. Plus a lot of other things that everyone refuses to do or complains about because they think something else should be done by someone else first.